All events on Sunday June 29

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Film
Opening Night (1978)
Sunday June 29 (6:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Writer, director, and indie saint John Cassavetes raised the curtain on backstage melodrama with his 1978 film Opening Night. Gena Rowlands gives a tender... View details »
Opening Night (1978)
Music: Rock/Pop
Lucha VaVoom
Sunday June 29 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
Rolling into town like a rollicking, sex-addled circus, Lucha VaVoom is the love child of a Mexican-wrestling fan and a burlesque dancer — and its... View details »
Lucha VaVoom
Music: Festival
Cyndi Lauper
Sunday June 29 (6pm) @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
For those eternally seeking the next best thing, Cyndi Lauper and the B-52s probably don't rank very high on the music agenda. Big mistake. Many... View details »
Cyndi Lauper

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Art
Dale Chihuly
Sunday June 29 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
Dale Chihuly
Art
The Way That We Rhyme
Sunday June 29 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
The Way That We Rhyme
More Flavor: Exhibition
2nd Skin
Sunday June 29 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
2nd Skin
Art
Frida Kahlo
Sunday June 29 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
Frida Kahlo
Art
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Sunday June 29 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times »
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Art: Photography
The Reggae Scrapbook
Sunday June 29 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
The Reggae Scrapbook
Art: Photography
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Sunday June 29 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Art
American Symbols
Sunday June 29 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
American Symbols
Art
Suzanne Husky
Sunday June 29 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
Suzanne Husky
Art: Photography
Trevor Paglen
Sunday June 29 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
Trevor Paglen
Film
The Axel Corti Trilogy
Sunday June 29 (4pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
A week after the last showing of R.W. Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, the PFA screens this lesser-known European epic, originally produced for television. Austrian director Axel... View details »
The Axel Corti Trilogy
More Flavor: Exhibition
Birth of the Cool
Sunday June 29 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
Birth of the Cool
More Flavor: Festival
Ethnic Dance Festival
Sunday June 29 (2pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre More times »
The 30th edition of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival continues to spotlight Bay Area dancers carrying on the traditions of over 35 dance forms.... View details »
Ethnic Dance Festival
More Flavor: Festival
Frameline32
Sunday June 29 @ Various locations More times »
This year, the world's largest and oldest LGBT film festival is in transition. Outgoing Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin receives the 2008 Frameline Award, and he... View details »
Frameline32
Film
The Warriors
Sunday June 29 (2, 4, 7:15 & 9:20pm) @ Red Vic More times »
This 1979 classic of urban cool and cartoon violence stars a street gang with true class. The posse takes on a rough 'n tumble (and... View details »
The Warriors
Film
Mysterious Objects
Sunday June 29 (2pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Postponed
To say that Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films may make you fall asleep is to pay them a high compliment. Somnambulant and elliptical features like... View details »
Mysterious Objects
More Flavor: Exhibition
Superstition Obstacle Course
Sunday June 29 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
Superstition Obstacle Course
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Sunday June 29 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
Giveaway
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
Encounters at the End of the World
Art
Women Impressionists
Sunday June 29 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
Women Impressionists
Performing Arts: Theatre
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Sunday June 29 @ Hypnodrome More times »
Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
Art: Festival
MOVE>SOUND
Sunday June 29 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
MOVE>SOUND
More Flavor: Parade
SF Pride Celebration
Sunday June 29 (10:30am–7pm) @ Civic Center More times »
Free
There's plenty to be proud of this year — most of all, the recent landmark legal victory that has California's LGBT couples lining up across... View details »
SF Pride Celebration
Performing Arts: Theatre
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Sunday June 29 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's... View details »
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Film
Brick Lane
Sunday June 29 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
Brick Lane
Film
Savage Grace
Sunday June 29 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
Savage Grace
Art
Unlikely Arrivals
Sunday June 29 (noon–5pm) @ 2nd Floor Projects More times »
Free
Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a trio of artists whose... View details »
Unlikely Arrivals